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I'd like to thank R C Tubbs for help in connecting William Huckabee to his father Beraman Huckabee (see Generation 7 below); and Carrie Nall for providing the maiden name of Eva Lorene Whitney

Michael Huckabee

Mike Huckabee married Janet McCain on 25 May 1974, and they had three children: John Mark Huckabee, David Huckabee and Sarah Huckabee. Mike Huckabee is a Baptist minister and the author of several books. Mike Huckabee was Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He is currently running for President of the United States as a Republican.

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Encyclopedia of Arkansas states "Mike Huckabee was born on August 24, 1955, in Hope (Hempstead County), the son of Dorsey W. and Mae (Elder) Huckabee."

Dorsey Wiles Huckabee

Dorsey Wiles Huckabee was born 17 Jul 1923 in Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas to Virgil Huckabee and his wife Ernie Betts. Dorsey married May E Elder. She was born 14 Dec 1925, also in Hope. Dorsey died 31 Mar 1996 at his home in Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas. May died in Bryant, Arkansas on 30 Sep 1999.

Both are buried and have tombstones in Memory Gardens Cemetery, in DeRoane Township, Hempstead County, Arkansas.

Texarkana Gazette, obituary "Dorsey Huckabee" : "Dorsey Wiles Huckabee, 72 of Texarkana, Ark., died Sunday, March 31, 1996, at his home. Mr Huckabee was born July 17, 1923 in Hope, Ark. He was retired from the Hope Fire Department and the Arkansas State Highway Department and a member of Beech Street First Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife Mae Elder Huckabee of Texarkana, one son and daughter-in-law, Mike and Janet Huckabee of Texarkana, and daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Jim O Harris of Texarkana; one sister, Joyce Mross of Hope; and five grandchildren, John Mark Huckabee, David Huckabee, Sarah Huckabee, Chip Harris and Katie Beth Harris of Texarkana. Services will be 11am today at Beech Street First Baptist Church with Mike Huckabee and the Rev. Roy Parker officiating. Graveside services will be 2pm today in Memory Gardens Cemetery, Hope. The family will be at 47 Broadmoor, Texarkana, Ark. Memorials may be made to KLFI TV, PO Box 1469, Texarkana, Ark, 71854 or Ark-La-Tex Home Health and Hospice, 6500 N Summerhill Road, Texarkana, Texas 75503"

Dorsey and Ernie both have tombstones in Memory Gardens Cemetery, in DeRoane Township, Hempstead County, Arkansas; these were extracted in one of the Cemetery books published by the Hempstead County Genealogical Society

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Texarkana Gazette, obituary "Mae Huckabee" : "Mae Elder Huckabee, 73, of Bryant, Ark., formerly of Hope, died Thursday, Sep 30, 1999, in a Bryant nursing home. Mrs Huckabee was born Dec. 14, 1925, in Hope. She was retired from Louisiana/Nevada Transit Co. and a member of Church at Rock Creek, Little Rock. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dorsey W Huckabee on March, 31, 1996. Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, Gov. Mike Huckabee and Janet Huckabee of Little Rock; one daughter and son-in-law, Patricia L "Pat" and Jim Harris of Bryant; three sisters, Louise Casey of Fort Worth, Texas, and Vena Shores and Emilie Prescott of Hope; and five grandchildren. Services will be 10am Saturday at Brazzel/Oakcrest Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Mark Evans and Rick Caldwell officiating. Private burial will be in Memory Gardens. Visitation will be 6pm to 8pm today at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Arkansas Hospice, 2200 Fort Roots Drive, North Little Rock, Ark., 72114-1709"

Dorsey and Ernie both have tombstones in Memory Gardens Cemetery, in DeRoane Township, Hempstead County, Arkansas; these were extracted in one of the Cemetery books published by the Hempstead County Genealogical Society

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Virgil Huckabee

Virgil Huckabee was born 16 Jan 1901, probably in Hempstead County, Arkansas to Lucius Huckabee and his wife Lula McKee. He married Ernie J Betts between 1920 and 1930 probably in Hempstead County, Arkansas. She was born 1902 and died 1992. He died 22 Oct 1978 while a resident of Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas. They are buried side-by-side at Huckabee Cemetery, near Hope, in Hempstead County, Arkansas

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Ernie Jerome Betts

Ernie Betts was born in 15 Apr 1902. She married Virgil Huckabee between 1920 and 1930 probably in Hempstead County, Arkansas. Virgil died 22 Oct 1978 while a resident of Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas. Ernie died 14 Apr 1992. They are buried side-by-side at Huckabee Cemetery, near Hope, in Hempstead County, Arkansas

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William Thomas Elder

William Thomas Elder was born 12 Jul 1868 in Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky to Granville Elder and his wife Sarah J Unknown. He served during the Spanish-American War. He married firstly to a fellow Kentucky-native, Mary L "Mollie" Murrell in Adair County, Kentucky on 23 Sep 1903. They had two known children: Garvin Elder (1904-1968) and Earl Elder (1905-). (Earl was in the US Coast Guard in Baltimore, Maryland in 1945). Mary died between the 1910 census, when they are all enumerated in Menard County, Illinois and the 1920 census, when the family is enumerated in Nevada County, Arkansas. If they had any more children, they must have died young as they are not on the 1920 census with William.

He married his second wife Eva Lorene Whitney (1904-1989) about 1925 ("when she was 21", see 1930 census), probably in Arkansas, and probably in Nevada County, where both families then lived, or possibly next-door in Hempstead County. The family lived in Hope, Arkansas by 1925 when their daughter May was born there. William and May had at least or exactly seven children: (in birth order) May, Neal (who died in a swimming accident), Louise (who married Jack Casey), Elsie who married Alvin Wilson Huckabee (the son of Sidney Carl "Tobe" Huckabee and Parie Betts), Vena (who married Roger Pletcher), Emilie (who married Leon Prescott, and William Thomas Jr.(who married Gloria)

William Thomas Elder died 8 Mar 1945 in Springhill Township, Hempstead County, Arkansas. He is buried in Huckabee Cemetery in Springhill.

His widow Eva remarried to a Mr. Garner which is the surname under which she died.

When her mother Sarah died in 1910, Eva's widowed father married his sister-in-law Minerva Sickler that same year.

Eva married William Thomas Elder (1868-1945), evidently as his second wife when she was about 21. The family lived in Hope, Arkansas in 1925. They had seven children: May, Neal, Louise, Elsie, Vena, Emilie, and William Thomas Jr.

After William Thomas Elder died, Eva remarried to a Mr. Garner which is the surname under which she died on 2 Jan 1989.

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Lucius E Huckabee

Lucius E Huckabee was born 6 Aug 1876 in Arkansas, probably in Hempstead County to Berryman Huckabee and his wife Rebecca Dudley. He married Lula McKee on 28 Dec 1898 in Hempstead County, Arkansas (Marriage book M, pg 379). Lula was born 22 May 1878. She died in 17 Jun 1944 in Hope, Arkansas. He remarried in 1947, a widow named Rebecca "Becky". He died 2 Aug 1970. They are buried side-by-side at Huckabee Cemetery, near Hope, in Hempstead County, Arkansas.

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Sarah J Unknown

Charles Oliver Whitney

Charles Oliver Whitney was born 6 May 1865 in Menard County, Illinois, son of Scott Macine Whitney by his wife Mary Ann Bell. His father Scott may have died sometime between 1864 and 1867, since on 18 Mar 1867, Mary married secondly to Michael Rock in Menard County, Illinois.

In 1870 and 1880 the family is enumerated living in Menard County with Michael Rock as the head of the family. Evidently Charles was the only surviving issue from his mother's first marriage. Interestingly, Mary is remarried as Mary Bell not Mary Whitney, this may indicate the possibility that Scott did not die, but rather that he and Mary divorced.

In 1910, where the family was enumerated living in Long Creek, Macon County, Illinois, Sarah states that she is the mother of 9 children, 8 of whom are still living. Sarah died later that same year. Charles then married secondly, her sister Minerva Sickler. By 1920 the family had moved to Alabama Township, in Nevada County, Arkansas. They may have later moved to Hope, Arkansas as Charles died there on 7 Feb 1937.

His second wife Minerva died in 1940. Charles and both of his wifes are buried in the Spangler Cemetery in Macon County, Illinois.

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Sarah Ablacur Sickler

Sarah Ablacur Sickler was born about 1865/6 in Illinois, the daughter of Robert Sickler by his wife Mary. She married, as his first wife, on 23 Feb 1891 in Menard County, Illinois to Charles Oliver Whitney (b 1865), a native of that place. They had at least or exactly nine children: Minnie Laura Whitney 1891/2, George Allen Whitney 1893/4, Charles Scott Whitney 1895/6, Jazer Harry Whitney (infant), Mary Ann Whitney 1897/8, John William Whitney 1900/1, Eva Lorene Whitney 1903/4, James Douglas Whitney 1906/7 and Robert Francis Whitney 1908/9.

In 1910, where the family was enumerated living in Long Creek, Macon County, Illinois, Sarah states that she is the mother of 9 children, 8 of whom are still living. Sarah died later that same year. Charles then married secondly, her sister Minerva Sickler. By 1920 the family had moved to Alabama Township, in Nevada County, Arkansas. They may have later moved to Hope, Arkansas as Charles died there on 7 Feb 1937.

Scott Sickler, a site visitor, informs me that the parents of Sarah and Minerva were Robert F Sickler and his wife Mary J Sheppard, and directs me to the 1870 and 1880 census of Tazewell County, Illinois for confirmation. He further states that Mary (Sheppard) Sickler died Jan 1909 in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Charles' second wife Minerva died in 1940. Charles and both of his wifes are buried in the Spangler Cemetery in Macon County, Illinois.

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Berryman Huckabee

Berryman "Berry" Huckabee was born 10 Jun 1851 in Georgia, the son of William M Huckabee and Nancy Williams. He married on 7 Nov 1872 in Hempstead County to Rebecca A Dudley who was born 14 Mar 1852 in Georgia. By 1880 they were living in Spring Hill, Hempstead County, Arkansas. Berry died 26 Oct 1904 in Hempstead County, Arkansas. His wife Rebecca died 28 Dec 1924 in Hempstead County, Arkansas as his widow. They are buried side-by-side at Huckabee Cemetery, near Hope, in Hempstead County, Arkansas

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Rebecca A Dudley

Rebecca A Dudley was born 14 Mar 1852 in Georgia. She married on 7 Nov 1872 in Hempstead County to Berryman "Berry" Huckabee who was born 10 Jun 1851 in Georgia. By 1880 they were living in Spring Hill, Hempstead County, Arkansas. Berry died 26 Oct 1904 in Hempstead County, Arkansas. Rebecca died 28 Dec 1924 in Hempstead County, Arkansas as his widow. They are buried side-by-side at Huckabee Cemetery, near Hope, in Hempstead County, Arkansas

Redick H Betts

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Nancy A Unknown

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Generation 6

32. William M Huckabee was born 22 Jan 1817 in Buncombe County, North Carolina, the son of Berryman Huckabee and Elizabeth unknown. On 8 Oct 1835 he married Nancy Williams in Carroll County, Georgia (Marriage Book C, Page 54). William died 30 Nov 1876 in Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas.

33. Nancy Williams was born 17 Sep 1817. She died 11 Nov 1899 in Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas. She is buried at the Huckabee Cemetery in Hope, Arkansas.

Generation 7

64. Beraman M "Berryman" Huckabee was born about 1795 in Virginia and moved early to North Carolina. It's not yet known whether he married his wife Elizabeth in North Carolina, but William M Huckabee one of their sons was born there in 1817. The family by 1832 had moved to Carroll County, Georgia where their son Isaac Huckabee was born that year.

Beraman's final move was to Lafayette County, Mississippi where he died in 1876. Beraman M Huckabee is buried in the Huckaby Family Cemetery in Lafayette County, Mississippi

Speculative continuation

There is a potential (speculative) Royal connection, provided by One World Tree as follows:

Berryman "Berry" Huckabee son of Nancy Williams (1817-1899)

dau of Leroy Williams (1791-1880)

son of William Williams (1757-1834)

son of Elizabeth Ledbetter (1743-~1767)

dau of Mary Walton (1711-1779)

dau of Elizabeth Rowe (1685-1775)

dau of Thomas Rowe

son of Anne Langston (1600-1633)

dau of Anthony Langston (1575-1633)

son of Henry Langston (~1530-1591)

son of William Langston (~1470-1556) [William as a son of Amicia Danvers is suspect]